Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Stars class made place mats and iced biscuits for our Macmillan snack. We enjoyed a sociable gathering together where some of us chose to have strawberry milk shake too. We also decorated a yummy Colin the caterpillar cake. We thought it looked great next to the Colin the caterpillar we’d grown with grass seed!
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when they had a chance to be active in the classroom. The boys took part in some story yoga and the story choice had to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar ! The boys used their literacy listening and understanding skills to listen to the story and follow the instructions.
The Transition class were Effective Contributors when they worked in the school garden. Due to lockdown our vegetable bed was over run with weeds. They boys put in a lot of effort to dig and remove the horsetails.
The boys then planted cauliflower, cabbages and broccoli to grow over winter. They will have to use their numeracy skills to keep an eye on the weather forecast each day to watch out for frost.
The Stars class have been confident individuals and successful learners whilst enjoying outside activities when the weather is good. We have been looking at the garden trees and how they change over the year. We created lovely pictures for the class wall of the four seasons of the tree. We discussed our needs and wants this week and had a great time with the car ramp deciding which slopes and surfaces made our cars go farther……and faster! We enjoyed hearing the story of the ‘Loaves and Fishes’ and were amazed at how five wee loaves and two fishes could feed five thousand people!
Hi Everyone. Hope all is well with you. All the Stars class ladies are doing fine and enjoyed the sunshine this weekend. 
This week is POLO (Power Off Learn Outside) Week at Willowbank so we thought you might like to do some of the activities we’d be doing at school.
CD Wind Spinners Ornament
You will need – old CD, string or ribbon, PVA glue, sequins, buttons, glitter, scissors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-lk66d2m4
Mrs Chisholm made spinners with her daughter Evie. Aren’t they good?
Garden Treasure Hunt
Collect……..
5 stones
8 pegs
2 gardening gloves
6 weeds
1 trowel
3 plant pots
7 daisies
9 twigs
4 leaves
10 buttercups
Write the number beside the bundle of things you’ve collected using twigs, chalk or painted on the slabs with a paintbrush and water.
Also – Make a circle from stones
Make a triangle from twigs
Leaf Name
Write your name from some of the things you’ve collected or write with chalk. Get your family to write their names too.
Mrs Logan was busy with her children writing their names. Looks like they want to be in the Stars class too!
Paper Plane Challenge
Make and decorate some paper planes with your family. Who’s plane can fly the farthest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ReNKZiZNc
Mrs Westerman made some paper planes with her wee grandson, Liam. They used pages from his colouring book. Liam had great fun flying his planes.
We hope you choose to do some of these activities. Remember to send us your comments or photos. We’d love to hear how you are getting on.
Have Fun! Keep Safe! 
Hi everyone. We hope all is good for you and that you are enjoying the mild weather.
Helping at home
Our families do lots around the house to look after us. Maybe you could help them do some chores. Why don’t you help………
Set the dinner table
Clear the dinner table
Wipe the dinner table
Wash and dry the dishes
Vacuum any crumbs up
Brush the floor
Dust
Mrs Logan, Mrs Westerman and Mrs Gardner have been very busy doing these chores around our own homes.
Balloon Rocket
Mrs Chisholm and her family had a great time making balloon rockets. Her children enjoyed this activity so much that they showed their teacher’s at their own school what they had done.
Why don’t you try making a balloon rocket too. All you need is some string, scissors, a straw, balloon and sellotape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uJLb-HrsMY
Picture Dominoes
We have good fun matching the pictures in this game. If you don’t have a picture dominoes game at home why don’t you print out these farm animal picture dominoes.
https://freeprintablepdf.wordpress.com/portfolio/discussion-cards/
Story
This is one of our favourite stories but read today by James McAvoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sly2G9tae_s
If you choose to do any of these activities then why don’t you send us a comment or some photographs. We’d love to hear from you.
Have Fun! Stay Safe! 
Good Morning Sungazers! Hope that you are all doing well?
This week we are going to the thinking about Sun Safety – what do we need to do/wear in the sunshine to keep us all safe!
Here are 3 activities to try at home –
Have a wonderful week and remember to please email us any photos of you completing your work – we would love to see you!
Team Sungazers
Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the good weather. 
Tuesday 2nd June should have been our Sports Day. Willowbank staff have been very busy filming and taking photographs of races you could try. The Stars class ladies had a ‘dressing up’ race. Hope you enjoy it!
This week we thought we could have our own wee sports day at home with a few races and a picnic. It would be nice to make some butterfly cakes for your picnic but if you can’t get the ingredients why not make some sandwiches instead. You could cut them into fancy shapes.
BUTTERFLY CAKE RECIPE 
100g butter, softened
100g caster sugar
2 large eggs
100g self raising flour
1 level teaspoon
baking powder
ICING – 175g butter, softened
350g sifted icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
INSTRUCTIONS –
** Don’t worry if you can’t find any icing sugar in the shops to make buttercream icing. A spoonful of jam or lemon curd in the centre will work just as well.
RACES
If you don’t see any races/activities you want to do on the Willowbank video then maybe you could consider welly throwing (who throws their welly nearest to the target – the target could be a teatowel), water race (fill a basin with water, scoop up a cup of water at a time and run with it over to an empty bowl. Who can collect the most amount of water in 1 minute), ball/balloon catch (how many times can you catch a balloon or ball in 1 minute) or fill the bucket (transfer small objects from one bucket to another. First finished is the winner.) I’m sure someone from your family could help you with your races.
PICNIC
Sit on a rug in the garden, if you can, and enjoy your butterfly cakes and some juice with your family or you could sit at a picnic table. Maybe use a colourful tablecloth. Listen for the birds. Mrs Gardner has blackbirds nesting in her garden and they are very chirpy!
WE’RE ALL GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
Enjoy listening to this story on You Tube. Try and do all the actions and say the sounds if you can. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
If you have fun doing some of these activities then send us a comment or a photo. We’d love to hear from you.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
It’s June! Hope everyone has been enjoying this wonderful sunshine and is keeping safe!
This weeks task is a cookery one. At the weekend, Mrs Skinner and Mrs Coulter were busy making ladybird biscuits with their families and thought you would like to join in too – it was great fun!
We have used – digestive biscuits, red icing, icing pens to decorate and any other icing decorations we could find in our cupboards. Why don’t you have a go too – they were really tasty!
We also have a lovely story about a ladybird. It is called ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and you can find it on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9mPX7DuLA
Have a great week!
Team Sungazers
Hi everyone. Hope you are all well and keeping busy despite the poorer weather. The sun is shining today. Long may that continue. 
This week is diggidabble week so we thought it might be good to do some activities involving technology. 
COLOUR TREASURE HUNT
Borrow a camera, phone or tablet and look around the house and garden for things that are red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, pink or black. Take a photograph of what you find. Mrs Chisholm and Mrs Westerman found these coloured things in their homes.
SINGING HANDS MAKATON COLOURS How many signs can you remember?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Singing+Hands+Makaton+Colours
LETTER SOUNDS FROM ‘STARS CLASS’
Photograph items beginning with the sounds s t a r s c l a s s
Mrs Logan and Mrs Gardner collected these things in their homes.
TAKE A SELFIE
Can you fit more than one person into your selfie? How many have you photographed? Can you decorate your selfie with a filter like Mrs Westerman has done?
Can you think of any other digital things you use around the house? Here are some examples. Can you think of any others?
Try and sing/sign along with this song.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I+can+sing+a+rainbow+-+Rainbow+Song
If you choose to do any of these activities then maybe you could send a photo or write a comment. We’d love to hear from you.
Have Fun! Stay Safe!
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